From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thorsten Jolitz Subject: Re: [ANN] outorg.el -- reverse Org-Babel Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2013 00:45:10 +0100 Message-ID: <871ucl5c6x.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87mwvabeuk.fsf@gmail.com> <86r4kmffqc.fsf@iro.umontreal.ca> <87ip5yb4xl.fsf@gmail.com> <86wquedtg1.fsf@iro.umontreal.ca> <87liat7hl1.fsf@gmail.com> <86vc9xjtcp.fsf@iro.umontreal.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:57350) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1U5QYV-0005WT-NE for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Feb 2013 19:50:37 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1U5QYU-0001TX-Jm for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Feb 2013 19:50:35 -0500 Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:36742) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1U5PXO-0000rN-TI for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Feb 2013 18:45:23 -0500 Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1U5PXg-0003es-D8 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Feb 2013 00:45:40 +0100 Received: from e178056063.adsl.alicedsl.de ([85.178.56.63]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 13 Feb 2013 00:45:40 +0100 Received: from tjolitz by e178056063.adsl.alicedsl.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 13 Feb 2013 00:45:40 +0100 List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org François Pinard writes: > poporg has many flaws, and is surely not up to the quality of Org. > Nevertheless, I much use it even if imperfect, while knowing it should > be improved in many ways. same here on the outorg site, although I'm pretty sure its more alpha-stage. but since it is based on such a simple idea (-> design outline-regexp and outline-level in a way that applying 'comment-region' and 'uncomment-region' to each line does the conversion job between Org and whatever programming-language syntax) I hope a few bug-fixes and improvements will move it closer towards version 1.0. > If we could make something better out of two imperfections, it could be > worth trying. If only I had more time! Sigh! after a quick look at your code I would say that outorg and poporg are very different beasts - the effort to merge them would probably be much higher than to bring them both (independently) to a stable usable state. I will do some major changes motivated by this threat, maybe afterwards it easier to see where the similarities and where the differences are. -- cheers, Thorsten